kickycan wrote:You can have it all, as long as I can live out my days in a blissful vegetative state in front of a flickering screen. Yeah, now that's the life...
hell yeah.
i want my feeding tube to be a constant drip of Tequilla, soggy frito chips and chocolate chip cookies.....
I think that Schiavo is Italian for "life is beautiful so pull the plug", roughly.
And lots of naked men to ogle.
And every male nurse in the BUILDING better gimme a good bed bath..
I mean GOOD!
;-)
To catch up on what's really important in the news, I always watch Larry King on CNN. The man has an amazing instinct for interviewing the key newsmakers.
It's remarkable...
Lemme guess,
He had J-Lo on last night?
shewolfnm wrote:Lemme guess,
He had J-Lo on last night?
Jigglers? I like jello...
Good news Kicky, plenty more entertainment to milk out of this.
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=327962005
What on earth do guys see in J-low?
blueveinedthrobber wrote:
Excellent. Now maybe even when she dies, the the fighting and acrimony can live on in her name....I'm absolutely certain that this is the way she would have wanted it, isn't it?
The Congress is now actively working on that very thing; to make sure Terri Schiavo's name lives forever in the hearts of men. I just wish they would work on those now living with a chance for some semblance of life.
I still dont understand WHY schiavo became such a media covered case?
I guess she didnt have a living will?
And how did the media get ahold of that????
It got such coverage because someone at a law firm got wind of her case and decided that they weren't doing enough business. So, in order to generate some more revenue, they scared the s*it out of a bunch of americans saying "If you don't have a living will, THIS could happen to you!". And thusly, the stampede of folks running in to get a living will and the rolling in of millions of dollars began.
Somewhat like the stock market, is being an attorney the right time now?
It's news media theater. They can play the same video over and over and get lots of response to it. (The family provided that heavily edited video proving she isn't a vegetable.) Then they get daily news conferences from the family to throw in there too.
Notice how the Red Lake school shooting isn't getting the airtime that Columbine did? My feeling is because they don't have all that helicopter video of kids running out of the school and cops running in to play constantly. It's got nothing to do with news. Everything to do with video.
Reality is a funny and fickle thing; we believe things even though they are not factual, because it would ruin everything we have valued throughout our life if we change our minds.
Points well-taken about the lack of media attention to the Red Lake school shootings. Here's another angle I haven't seen mentioned in this regard: Compare the victims at Columbine compared to those at Red Lake. Notice a difference?
Back to Schiavo: I don't blame lawyers really. I think that religious zealots, attention seekers, and manipulative politicians played a bigger role.
